#1542

Watching all of it through start to finish at the moment. I bought season 3 with the intent of just watching that and then thought fuck it. Never got round to watching all of the film’s deleted scenes so I’ll be doing that on the way. Weird watching it after season 3. Not fully able to articulate why though, not yet.

We’re past the best-scene-of-all-time aka james hurley singing Just You and not far off the bit where season 2 goes shit, wish me luck. Each time I watch it, it somehow gets more and less bearable. Like The Phantom Menace.

Still though. Season 1 is pretty much as close to perfect as anything I’ve ever seen.

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#1543

I’m applying for a TV-related work thingy and one of the application questions (and you can apply via video) is to talk about a TV show you particularly liked from the last year.

So obviously I just spent a bit of time today teaching myself how to do this:
https://vocaroo.com/i/s0IIm777K9Ib

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#1544

Finished my rewatch last night, I think it probably benefits from going in knowing (as much as you can know, anyway) what’s going to happen - it removes that sense I had on first watch of constantly trying to grasp onto any handhold the show was offering, and I could relax a bit more and just enjoy it. Those final episodes are incredible, I can’t think of any other TV show (or any piece of art/creative medium/whatever) that made me feel how I did in those last minutes.

I ended up avoiding this thread when the show was airing, because I got the sense after parts 1 & 2 that the show was going to be so subjective that there wasn’t really any point in reading theories that other people have, and I’ll probably stick with that approach. It’s fun to think about though.

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#1545

yeah i really enjoyed it a lot more the second time too. how quickly did you watch it? found it really benefits from kinda flying through it.

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#1546

Over about a month, probably - four episodes a week is what I was roughly doing.

It felt like a lot more happened on the rewatch as well, like at the end of every episode it felt like there had been something big that had occurred - I don’t remember feeling that on first watch, maybe because the pacing took a while to get used to (speaking of which, after watching the final episode last night, I went back and checked the time for that last car journey from Odessa to Twin Peaks - it’s about 8 or 9 minutes of almost no dialogue).

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#1547

I honestly think that might be the most tense ive ever felt watching tv/film/theatre. Fantastic.

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#1548

I think if it hadn’t been that tense I’d have probably started laughing at the sheer audacity of including that in the last 15 minutes of the series.

#1549

I was so irked by that at the time, it was like 3 in the morning and it felt like they were just frittering away time when there was so much left to cover

#1550

I need to re watch it at some point (given how I tell people it’s one of my favourite shows ever). Thinking of doing a big watch of the whole three seasons and movie at some point.

#1551

I was like this too, pure “what the fuck is going on here, there’s only 10mins left!” frustration at the time but when the very last scene occurred I was blown away. Felt overwhelmed.

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#1552

took me a few weeks to realise the end was actually really good

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#1553

This is basically me back when the original S2 finalé ended :grin:

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#1554

Watched Fire Wall With Me yesterday. Absolutely love it. I know that in a sense, Lynch has made better films in terms of how they are made, but this really clicks with me and I love it. That final hour is a fucking panic attack.

With the third season in mind it feels like a weird transition between the Twin Peaks of Seasons 1/2 and the Twin Peaks of Season 3.

Has anyone else watched the “Missing Pieces” deleted scenes? Just seen them for the first time. Some real interesting stuff in there, both good and bad. Wish quite a few scenes had made the cut, most notably an extened bit above the convenience store and some of the Palmer family as a unit. There’s also a scene with Jacoby that’s quite good because it asserts how much of a fucking creep he is.

But some scenes take away the subtlety, while others just don’t work. Especially a weird fight scene between the main FBI agent at the start of Fire Walk With Me and the dickhead sheriff from that other town. The extra Philip Jeffries/David Bowie stuff is dead odd in a way that doesn’t feel right. I’m quite glad the Missing Pieces exists though, it’s a cool series of vignettes that works suprisingly well. I reckon it’s more good than bad, but I’m obviously all in at this point.

Really excited to start Season 3 again, haven’t watched it since it was on telly.

A part of me thinks I’ve missed a trick by not reading the books as well just to go through everything, but another part of me thinks I’ve saved a decent amount of money + time. I enjoyed Laura Paulmer’s diary and the Tapes auidobook more than I thought I would.

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#1555

Unnecessary but quite nice picture discs from record store day:

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#1556

Jesus christ I’m good at photography

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#1557

Halfway through The Secret History of Twin Peaks and this isn’t very good. I think it’s gotten better since we’ve fucked off most of the alien UFO bullshit, but it feels like a massively missed opportunity to have something more like Welcome to Nightvale in that universe. Will probably still get The Final Dossier, which I’ve heard slightly more positive things about.

I’ve already listened to Diane: The Twin Peaks Tapes and that was surprisingly fun. I’ve never read the Secret Diary of Laura Palmer before, so I’ve just bought a copy and I’ll start that soon. I think once I get through this reading period, I’ll have consumed every Twin Peaks “thing” there is?

Oh and a few episodes into Season 3 and I’m enjoying it even more than the first time around. Knowing how the stories play out and seperating it from all the expectation of the first time makes it a lot more satisfying than I previously realised it to be.

#1558

i thought secret history was better because it at least had some original elements. i enjyoed the owl cave origins bit if nowt else. final dossier is literally just a recap of everything in s3 explained for dummies.

#1559

I found Secret History OK overall (I listened to the audiobook with some of the Twin Peaks cast contributing voice acting); it was sort of fun, but bits of it just felt like watered down Pynchon (it encouraged me to re-read Mason & Dixon though, which was a good shout) and I did find myself zoning out during long stretches of UFO talk (I liked the stories about the mysteries / myths of the woods, but less so when they explicitly linked it to aliens or whatever).

The Final Dossier is OK as well; (iirc) it kind of summarises big chunks of season 3 but there’s some interesting background to some of the other characters, which I quite enjoyed too.

Was thinking about getting Secret Diary (might have to wrangle another Audible free trial from a podcast)

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#1560

Going to try to get my flatmate into Twin Peaks tonight. If I don’t keep him occupied then he winds me up by making shit music. I really hope he likes it, because I’m well up for a full watch of the entire thing again, and I cannot fucking bear him noodling away on that guitar any longer.

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#1561

What if he starts noodling with smooth jazz basslines / ominous synth pads as a result instead?